An Old Letter from the Future

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CHAPTER 1. The Tower of Silence

CHAPTER 2. The Knights

CHAPTER 3. Sunset Depth

CHAPTER 4. Jump Into The Dawn

CHAPTER 5. Prey And Hunter

CHAPTER 6. Petals

CHAPTER 7. The Puppets

CHAPTER 8. On The Hook

CHAPTER 9. The Direct Hit

CHAPTER 10. Thee Hearts

CHAPTER 11. The Grass

CHAPTER 12. The White Flag Of The Winner

The Story Behind the Book

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This morning turned out surprisingly warm: the princess lay in a spacious bed, covered with a thin blanket, while the canopies above it remained drawn open, letting in the first rays. Her eyelids were still closed, yet the light was already seeping through them, meeting no resistance – insistent, relentless, it invaded her awareness, tempting her with its golden warmth. This persistent explorer beckoned her to leave the distant, slipping expanse of sleep and return to reality, to the waking world.

The windows of her chamber had neither glass nor shutters – they were always open, yet this hardly affected the temperature inside, as though the castle possessed a climate of its own, like the mood of a sage: calm, detached from the storms outside, impervious to the whims of fate. Only long, sheer curtains gently veiled the narrow openings, like eyelids powerless before the sunbeams that had traveled millions of kilometers just to enter within.

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Returning to the roof, the princess walked to the edge and looked down. The poppies stood calm again, as though what had happened was merely part of their familiar cycle – like morning rain or evening wind.

The world is made that way, she thought.

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